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Post-Pregnancy Procedures
A mommy makeover is a unique combination plastic surgical treatment, tailored for women based on the specific body areas to be enhanced. The most common procedures are breast surgery (implants, lift, or reduction) combined with tummy tuck, and perhaps liposuction. These surgeries are done using general anesthesia, and can take between 3 – 7 hours based on the complexity and number of areas operated.
Breast Surgery
Breast enlargement has been the most common procedure at Minneapolis Plastic Surgery for over the last decade, and Dr. Tholen performs hundreds of breast procedures each year. These include not only breast augmentation and breast lifts, but also implant revisions, breast reductions, and transgender mastectomies (top surgery) as well as transgender augmentations.
Gender Confirmation Surgery
Dr. Tholen has been performing M-F transgender breast augmentation and F-M top surgery (chest masculinization) transgender total mastectomies for over three decades. This is specialized surgery not taught in most plastic surgery training programs. Top surgery should not use breast lift or reduction scar patterns (feminine), and should leave as little scarring as possible. Knowing when keyhole mastectomies are possible, and when they are not (leaving wrinkled skin deformities) requires experience and astute judgement.
Total years in practice: 37
As an aesthetic plastic surgeon for the majority of my 3+ decades career, I am continually striving to find innovative ways to solve patients' aesthetic concerns, to improve sub-optimal results from other surgeons (as well as a few of my own), and how to best avoid them in the first-time patient. I want my patients to be happy their results are natural, but more importantly, better than they imagined.
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Because of the high demand for free consultations with Dr. Tholen, our staff will ask for a credit card number in order to schedule a consultation; there is no charge whatsoever for appointments that are kept–you will be charged $100 only if you fail to keep a scheduled appointment.
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